Netbeans and Java implementations

[Wulfy]

kbl at adept-hosting.net wrote:
> On Sunday 22 June 2008 14:35:00 Pablo L. Berdaguer wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> I installed the sun-java6 packages and Netbeans IDE... but the netbeans
>> package from ubuntu repositories depends on the onpenjdk-6-jre packages.
>> Why is that? Do I really need openjdk if I already have the sun
>> implementation installed? How can I manage to delete the openjdk while
>> keeping netbeans?
>>
>> Thanks
>>     
>
> I don't know this package specifically but I would think you will need some 
> form of JDK. JRE is the run-time environment and JDK is the development kit. 
> You need *a* development kit to work with the IDE. So, logically, you will 
> need the openjdk package. I don't know if the sun-java6 packages you 
> installed include a compatible jdk but I'm assuming openjdk *is* a dependancy 
> of Netbeans.
Netbeans depends on libnb-platform7-java which in turn depends on 
openjdk-6-jre OR sun-java6-jre.  I assume that the packagers *prefer* 
the openjdk version because it is FOSS

Of course you need a full -jdk to compile so one or other (openjdk-6-jdk 
OR sun-java6-jdk) is required but not both.  Either contains the 
(appropriate) -jre files.

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